All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
James Matthew BarrieOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen KellerWhere there is FAITH there is LOVE, Where there is LOVE, there is PEACE, Where there is PEACE, there is GOD, Where there is GOD, there is BLISS.
Sai BabaBelieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent PealeFaith is the evidence of the unseen.
Maya AngelouFaith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.
Mahatma GandhiIt's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad AliTo have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan WattsFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceFaith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas AquinasFaith is a passionate intuition.
William WordsworthTechnology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve JobsFaith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind, it dies.
Mahatma GandhiIn the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinI respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson MiznerYou pray in your distress and in your need, would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil GibranFaith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel OsteenFaith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan WattsBe faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother TeresaIt's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve JobsHaving trust and faith in your own country, you won't try to put down any other country.
Sai BabaSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve JobsFaith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise PascalBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain you gain all, if you lose you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that He exists.
Blaise PascalFaithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
ConfuciusThe separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre GideFaith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward BeecherFaith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma GandhiUnwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma GandhiFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster FullerHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BuddhaObserve good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George WashingtonThe keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph MarstonNon-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma GandhiFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MenckenFaith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath TagoreFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil GibranFaith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren KierkegaardFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen KellerGod didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.
Mother TeresaMy secret is simple - I pray.
Mother TeresaGod made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil GibranAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
Alan WattsThere are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinThere is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo CoelhoAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education, or of government, by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor RooseveltHave faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.
Sai BabaI have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeOn a long journey of human life faith is the best of companions, it is the best refreshment on the journey, and it is the greatest property.
BuddhaThere is nothing that wastes the body like worry and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma GandhiAlongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.
Sai BabaBelieve that all hearts are motivated by the one and Only God - that all faiths glorify the One and the Only God, that all names in all languages and all Forms men can conceive denote the One and Only God.
Sai BabaBe a sinner and sin strongly but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin LutherMy faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
Dalai LamaAnyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin LutherOur faith comes in moments, our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric HofferA rusty nail placed near a faithful compass will sway it from the truth and wreck the argosy.
Walter ScottForgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason CooleyFaith is to believe what you do not see, the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint AugustineReason is the enemy of faith.
Martin LutherIt's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince LombardiIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William JamesIf there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh BillingsThose who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.
Sai BabaTake away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.
Eric HofferWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William JamesA great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest, Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem, and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.
Benjamin DisraeliDuty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin DisraeliNot brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas CarlyleArt requires neither complaisance nor politeness, nothing but faith faith and freedom.
Gustave FlaubertVedanta is the legitimate property of every section every caste every community and every race of the followers of any faith and persons of both sexes.
Sai BabaThe infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.
Alice WalkerTake the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.
Louis L'AmourFor me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. WilsonPeople define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians they're not all growing in their faith they're not all active but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
Joel OsteenThe smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David ThoreauWe can never learn too much of His will towards us too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. RockefellerTo know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric HofferFaith indeed tells what the senses do not tell but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise PascalFaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TolkienChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyAll who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin LutherFaith - you can do very little with it but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel ButlerIt strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with, instead of blessed with.
Mitt RomneyFaith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich NietzscheIrreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Ambrose BierceThe improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas HuxleyIf faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami VivekanandaFaith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Martin LutherNote too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
OvidFaith is a living daring confidence in God's grace so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin LutherDo not allow any circumstances to affect your faith in God who is your strength and solace.
Sai BabaThere is a strange glow on the face of a guileless person. Inner cleanliness has its own soap and water - the soap of strong faith and the water of constant practice.
Sai BabaA man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton ChekhovOne of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille BallWOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land women are adored and revered.
Sai BabaCLEANSE your emotions, passions, impulses, attitudes and reactions. That is the essence of spiritual discipline, as laid down in all Faiths.
Sai BabaBad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason CooleyFaith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see, it is above not against them.
Blaise PascalIn economics hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth GalbraithOur problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
John W. GardnerOnly the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich FrommThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinIf I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf he have faith the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin LutherPainting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van GoghA better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthurLet the different faiths exist, let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.
Sai BabaIt is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas PaineWe like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise PascalFaith can affect even inanimate objects.
Sai BabaDo not allow doubt to distract you, if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity you can win a vision of My Reality.
Sai BabaAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone WeilFaith Hill is a big role model.
Taylor SwiftSome people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith, but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. LewisIt is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. MoodyMan must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert SchweitzerIt's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell HolmesNo religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.
Sai Baba'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason CooleyBe steady have faith and reach the Goal safe.
Sai BabaOn life's journey faith is nourishment virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him.
BuddhaThe tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith Self-less service and the process of Dedication.
Sai BabaNonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma GandhiFor modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander PopeThe man who radiates good cheer who makes life happier wherever he meets it is always a man of vision and faith.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxThere is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord TennysonDo not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now, but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!
Sai BabaA faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor HugoThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William JamesHe that rebels against reason is a real rebel but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith than George the Third.
Thomas PaineEarn the qualifications - holiness purity faith and universal love - then He will approach you on foot to console comfort and save. If you have purity of heart and mastery over the senses His Grace is your right.
Sai BabaYou can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel ButlerFaith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt I should not believe.
Henry David ThoreauFaith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. BushWe are twice armed if we fight with faith.
PlatoGod is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
Desmond TutuHold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
ConfuciusFaith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David ThoreauBe confirmed in the faith that He is the doer of every deed. That is the genuine giving up .
Sai BabaHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de MontaigneFaith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.
Richard DawkinsWhat another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it, what another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre GideA good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HoraceAt times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich NietzscheFaith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise PascalFaith must trample under foot all reason sense and understanding.
Martin LutherThis President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe, we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Mitt RomneyTo me faith means not worrying.
John DeweyBe courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. EdisonAt least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
Richard DawkinsFear clogs, faith liberates.
Elbert HubbardBe like the Star which never wavers from the Crescent but is fixed in steady faith.
Sai BabaDo I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes I do.
George W. BushFaith in oneself is the best and safest course.
MichelangeloIntolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma GandhiIt is with faith that one should take up social service.
Sai BabaIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise PascalLets have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham LincolnSome men are just as firmly convinced of what they think, as others of what they know.
AristotleWhat I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack ObamaI have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeGod designed in different faiths, adored by different human communities, are all limbs of the One God that really is.
Sai BabaNow it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist ' says God `for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing.' `But ' says Man `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist and so therefore by your own arguments you don't. QED.' `Oh dear ' says God `I hadn't thought of that ' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. `Oh that was easy ' says Man and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Douglas AdamsWhat is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Samuel ButlerFaith in the God within is the toughest shield against the thrusts of Fate.
Sai BabaIf you have no faith you've lost your battle.
Bill CosbySure I am this day we are masters of our fate that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength, that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win victory will not be denied us.
Winston ChurchillMost High glorious God enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me true faith, certain hope and perfect charity, sense and knowledge, Lord, that I might carry out Your holy and true command.
Francis of AssisiFaith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.
E. M. ForsterBase souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauBe like the lions in the spiritual field rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.
Sai BabaThere are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John WoodenThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard DawkinsTo one who has faith no explanation is necessary. To one without faith no explanation is possible.
Thomas AquinasWe have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way, but if we turn to the left generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles SpurgeonHave faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave how can you get faith in the ocean?
Sai BabaA library implies an act of faith.
Victor HugoThe truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic not gifted with the necessary scientific learning presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas AquinasEven the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason CooleyAll faiths are inter-related and mutually indebted to each other for the principles they teach and the disciplines they recommended.
Sai BabaFaith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.
Sai BabaOur faith is faith in someone else's faith and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William JamesMy family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack ObamaHold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas AquinasLiberty cannot be established without morality nor morality without faith.
Alexis de TocquevilleBy faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint AugustineYou know my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack ObamaFaith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason CooleyFaith in ourselves and faith in God this is the secret of Greatness for God is Love.
Sai BabaI have come not to disturb or destroy any faith but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian the Muslim a better Muslim and the Hindu a better Hindu.
Sai BabaUltimately blind faith is the only kind.
Mason CooleyThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery woman and every man is God the Father's wife when the faithful soul is joined to our Lord Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit.
Francis of AssisiRespect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.
Sai BabaFaith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is in fact a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton ChekhovWhere there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric HofferConfidence... thrives on honesty on honor on the sacredness of obligations on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe don't really need reviewers just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
Carroll O'ConnorOnly our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWriting is an act of faith not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WhiteRashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster FullerThe fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sai BabaThe mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone WeilBack of every creation supporting it like an arch is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes then miracles occur.
Henry MillerWe know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea because we have heard it and because our faith tells us so that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls or who dwells within them or how precious they are those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
Saint Teresa of AvilaIf you think you can win you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William HazlittEvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward BeecherA casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche